Comparison of Plasma-Polymerized Thin Films Deposited from 2-Methyl-2-oxazoline and 2-Ethyl-2-oxazoline: I Film Properties.

Poly(2-oxazoline) is a promising new class of polymeric materials due to their antibiofouling properties and good biocompatibility. Poly(2-oxazoline) coatings can be deposited on different substrates via plasma polymerization, which can be more advantageous than other coating methods. The aim of this study is to deposit poly(2-oxazoline) coatings using a surface dielectric barrier discharge burning in nitrogen at atmospheric pressure using 2-methyl-2-oxazoline and 2-ethyl-2-oxazoline vapours as monomers and compare the film properties.

Antibacterial Thin Films Deposited from Propane-Butane Mixture in Atmospheric Pressure Discharge.

Antibacterial coatings on biomedical instruments are of great interest because they can suppress bacterial colonization on these instruments. In this study, antibacterial polymeric thin coatings were deposited on teflon substrates using atmospheric pressure plasma polymerization from a propane-butane mixture. The plasma polymerization was performed by means of surface dielectric barrier discharge burning in nitrogen at atmospheric pressure.

Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Polymerized 2-Ethyl-2-oxazoline Based Thin Films for Biomedical Purposes.

Polyoxazoline thin coatings were deposited on glass substrates using atmospheric pressure plasma polymerization from 2-ethyl-2-oxazoline vapours. The plasma polymerization was performed in dielectric barrier discharge burning in nitrogen at atmospheric pressure. The thin films stable in aqueous environments were obtained at the deposition with increased substrate temperature, which was changed from 20 ∘C to 150 ∘C.

Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Polymerized Oxazoline-Based Thin Films-Antibacterial Properties and Cytocompatibility Performance.

Polyoxazolines are a new promising class of polymers for biomedical applications. Antibiofouling polyoxazoline coatings can suppress bacterial colonization of medical devices, which can cause infections to patients. However, the creation of oxazoline-based films using conventional methods is difficult.

The Influence of CO Admixtures on the Product Composition in a Nitrogen-Methane Atmospheric Glow Discharge Used as a Prebiotic Atmosphere Mimic.

This work extends our previous experimental studies of the chemistry of Titan's atmosphere by atmospheric glow discharge. The Titan's atmosphere seems to be similarly to early Earth atmospheric composition. The exploration of Titan atmosphere was initiated by the exciting results of the Cassini-Huygens mission and obtained results increased the interest about prebiotic atmospheres.

Study of nitrogen flowing afterglow with mercury vapor injection.

The reaction kinetics in nitrogen flowing afterglow with mercury vapor addition was studied by optical emission spectroscopy. The DC flowing post-discharge in pure nitrogen was created in a quartz tube at the total gas pressure of 1000 Pa and discharge power of 130 W. The mercury vapors were added into the afterglow at the distance of 30 cm behind the active discharge.

Study of argon flowing afterglow with nitrogen injection.

In this work, the reaction kinetics in argon flowing afterglow with nitrogen addition was studied by optical emission spectroscopy. The DC flowing post-discharge in pure argon was created in quartz tube at the total gas pressure of 1000 Pa and discharge power of 60 W. The nitrogen was added into the afterglow at the distance of 9 cm behind the active discharge.

[History and present of registration of congenital anomalies in the Czech Republic].

In this paper we summarize the development of the official registration program of congenital anomalies in the Czech Republic from its beginnings in 1964 to present state. The historical review shows all running changes in the registration process that always reflected the actual knowledge in the epidemiology of congenital anomalies. The quantitative changes include mainly the change in the numbers of registered diagnoses.

[Extent of tuberculin skin testing spot in bacteriologically verified tuberculosis].

Background: Tuberculin skin test was evaluated in patients with bacteriologically verified tuberculosis notified in the Czech Republic during 2003 and 2004.

Methods And Results: Out of 1172 patients with bacteriologically verified tuberculosis altogether 28.8% were tuberculin-negative.

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic in the year 2004].

The number of notified TB cases in the Czech Republic continued to decrease in the year 2004. 1057 new TB cases and relapses of TB were reported in the year 2004 (10.3 / 100,000).

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic in 2003].

Background: 1162 new cases of tuberculosis were diagnosed in the Czech Republic in 2003; pulmonary tuberculosis represented 942 cases and in 660 cases the diagnosis of tuberculosis was bacteriologically confirmed.

Methods And Results: 355 cases were smear positive tuberculosis. The increase of certain TB cases (70%) in 2003 compared to 2002 is not statistically significant (p = 0.

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic in 2002].

Background: The number of all notified TB cases decreased in the year 2002. 1200 (11.8/100,000) cases of new TB diseases and relapses were reported in the year 2002.

Near 10-year and longer periods modulate circadians: intersecting anti-aging and chronoastrobiological research.

Biological cycles with relatively long and some unusual periods in the range of the half-week, the half-year, years, or decades are being discovered. Their prior neglect constituted a confounder in aging and much other research, which then"flew blind" concerning the uncertainties associated with these cycles when they are not assessed. The resolution of more about 10-year and other cycles, some reported herein, replaces the admission of complete unpredictability, implied by using the label "secularity.

[A survey of citizens' views on health care].

The Institute of Health Information and Statistics organized in 1988 a survey to assess citizens' views on the health services. The purpose was to reveal the citizens' views and to provide data which would be used by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs during the implementation of provisions to eliminate shortcomings and to improve the standard of provided services. The authors present the results of the survey.

[Demographic trends and the health status of the Czech population in the 80s].

The author summarizes basic indicators from which conclusions can be drawn on the health status of the population of the Czech Republic in the eighties up to 1988. She emphasizes the mortality life expectancy at birth, abortion rate, work incapacity on account of illness and injury, morbidity from diabetes and tuberculosis, the trend of newly detected malignant tumours and causes of invalidity. The assessed data are supplemented by figures and maps.

[A method for studying total population morbidity in the Czech Republic in 1986].

The authors evaluate the method applied in an extensive investigation of the general morbidity of the Czech population implemented in 1986, based on treated morbidity, not combined with the method of actual medicinal examinations. The population sample was selected by one-stage selection, randomization was made by birth data (seventh day in odd month). In the investigation participated all health community and factory doctors, as well as paediatricians and adolescent medical officers in the Czech Republic.

[Analysis of the causes of work disability and mortality in the middle-aged population in Czechoslovakia].

The authors submit an analysis of the mortality rate and work incapacity of middle-aged population groups of the CSSR by sex, territory (CSR, SSR) and selected groups of diagnoses.

[Analysis of morbidity in the Czech population].

Because of the need of more extensive knowledge of data on the health status of the population, in 1986 in the CSR a survey of the "treated morbidity" was made which recorded data pertaining to 1.3% of the entire population of the CSR (i. e.